MERRY CHRISTMAS, team! We hope you’re celebrating our Savior while staying cozy and healthy this holiday season. As we promised, today we’re bringing you a special gift: a brand new podcast. Listen in as Area Directors from our spring races share messages of HOPE with you, our incredible teammates.

This week’s podcast features our very own fearless leader Lyndsey Deane Ratchford as she talks about the importance of gratitude during this unique season.

In this week’s episode, we’re talking all about masks, both literally and figuratively. Lyndsey is joined by Julie Bierschenk, our podcast producer extraordinaire. Listen in as they discuss everything from their day-to-day mask habits to the idea of masking ourselves from the world and from God.

We’ve all been dreaming about “getting back to normal,” but we know that when that comes, it will be a new normal. This week, we’re talking about that very thing with Danielle and Brandon Adair, long-time runners with Team World Vision and superstar teammates on the New York City Marathon team this year.

You've got questions and we've got answers. This is our first mailbag episode, where LDR and Gregory Schlough are answering some of your questions about training tips, sponsorship, and World Vision's work.

This week, we’re bringing you to one of our favorite parts of team dinner: the top ten race day tips. We have the voices of ten of our area directors around the country, each bringing you a unique pro-tip that will ensure your race day is smooth and successful. Our tenth tip will be brought to you by Amy Claire Patterson, our Indy area director, who is going to give you a special and relevant race day word of encouragement.

“A long obedience in the same direction.” That’s a phrase that the folks at Team World Vision have been saying for years, and this episode embodies all of that as Lyndsey catches up with Jeannie Wang about why she comes back, year after year. For 12 years, Jeannie has continued to run and serve, never missing a beat and always listening to that whisper to say "yes" each year.

There’s power in freedom and this week, Richard “RichRel” Reliford is back to give an impactful, heartfelt, and joyful word on just that. As our original Berlin and London Marathon teams put in their pamoja miles, listen in on why we named our Berlin run the “Freedom Run” from this Berlin Marathon veteran.

This week, we’re picking up where we left off as Lyndsey chats with Tye Eckert, or better known as “Coach” Tye. For the past 5 years, he’s led and shepherded our triathlon team at Team World Vision. He takes the time to share with us what makes this part of our ministry so special, just days after our 23 triathletes crossed the finish line.

This past weekend, our very first Team World Vision produced triathlon took place with 23 athletes tackling 140.6 miles in the name of clean water. Over the next two weeks, we’re spending some quality time in this swimming, biking, and running world as we reflect on the transformation that’s occurred this year.